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NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting binutils package, versions <2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1

low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.1% (41st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-BINUTILS-348871
  • published 1 May 2017
  • disclosed 1 May 2017
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Introduced: 1 May 2017

CVE-2017-8395 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 binutils to version 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04.8+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream binutils package and not the binutils package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

The Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.28, is vulnerable to an invalid write of size 8 because of missing a malloc() return-value check to see if memory had actually been allocated in the _bfd_generic_get_section_contents function. This vulnerability causes programs that conduct an analysis of binary programs using the libbfd library, such as objcopy, to crash.